Chapter 4 Personal Identity
1. Qualitative Identity, numerical identity, accidental and essential property; Animalism
a) Locke’s Tale of the Prince and the Cobbler
b) Siamese Twins
2. Soul Theory
a) The King of China
b) Nestor and Tersites
c) Transubstantiation
d) Souls in Heaven
3. Memory Theory
a) Reid’s Tale of the Brave Officer
b) Direct and indirect memories
c) Real memory, apparent memory, quasi-memory
4. Psychological Continuity
a) Psychological connectedness
b) Psychological Continuity Theory
5. The Reduplication Problem
a) William’s Reincarnation of Guy Fawkes
b) Williams’ Reduplication Argument
c) Parfit Teletransporter
6. Revised Body Theory
7. Split Brains: Brain Theory
a) Parfit’s Division
8. Identity and what matters in survival
9. Identity and what matters in responsibility
10. Explaining the Self
Chapter 5 Ethics
1. Subjective Absolutism; Counterarguments
2. Subjective Relativism; Counterarguments
3. Emotivism; Blanshard’s Rabbit
4. Cultural relativism; Counterarguments
5. Anthropological Argument
6. Logical Structure of Moral Arguments
7. Divine Command Theory; St. Thomas’ argument
8. Are there universal moral principles?
9. Principles of justice and mercy
10. Consequentialist Theory; Formalist Theory
11. Intrinsic and Instrumental Values
12. Ethical egoism
13. Psychological Hedonism; Feinberg’s Single-Minded Hedonist
14. Act Utilitarianism
a) Mc Closkey’s informant
b) Brandt’s Heir
c) Ross’ Diplomat
d) Godwin’s Fire Rescue
e) Ewing’s Torture
f) Ewing’s Innocent Criminal
15. Rule Utilitarianism; Organ Transplants
16. Kant’s Categorical Imperative
17. Universalizability, reversibility
18. Perfect and imperfect duties
a) Hare’s Nazi fanatic
b) Ross’ Good Samaritan
19. Second Formulation
a) Broad’s Typhoid Man
b) Ewing’s Prudent Diplomat
20. Ross’ Prima Facie Duties; actual duties. You most know hierarchy and each one of these duties
21. Pluralistic formalism
22. Virtuous Utilitarian and virtuous Kantian
23. Aristotle on virtue; MacIntyre on virtue
24. Virtue Ethics
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